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FILM DETAILS

Certificate 15

Cast Simonne Mareuil Pierre Batcheff Salvador Dali Luis Bunuel

Directors Luis Bunuel

Screenwriters Salvador Dali Luis Bunuel

Running Time 17 minutes

Un Chien Andalou (15)

Plot
A man (Buñuel) takes a straight razor to a woman’s eye. Then, a young man (Batcheff) struggles with obsessive desires, hampered by absurd interventions from ants, an androgyne playing with a severed hand, pianos, clergymen, dead donkeys and a doppelganger. The hero walks happily along a beach with his girlfriend but, in Spring, they are sprouting out of the ground.

Verdict
Buenel and Dali's short masterpiece is a must-see.


Reviewer: Kim Newman

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